Find the mute button - usually the second button down on the right - then mark it clearly with a sharpie for the next person.
Unfortunately there are some pump models that don’t have a mute button now and the best you can do is retreat to the car and wait it out.
I can think of much better things to do, like keeping a flathead screwdriver handy for stabbing speakers (in Minecraft)
An air can turned upside-down gets cold enough to destroy most speaker cones, leaves no evidence that the machine is malfunctioning and needs repair, and is legal and non-suspicious to carry around in your car.
In Minecraft.
“🔇”
You are performing a public service.
Where the living fuck do petrol pumps have video ads? That’s crazy
Shouldnt suprise you but…US. (Possibly other countries) Years ago they started adding video screens to display certain things, so as natural progression goes….there’s a screen so there will be ads. Loud-as-shit video ads that play as soon as you start pumping. And when no one is at the pumps they cycle silent ad slideshows.
Damn, audio especially sounds irritating. It seems we can’t escape ads these days…
I’ve seen a few pumps with ads, but only in the form of a sticker or laminated poster advertising premium fuel or some random tat they’re selling in the garage shop.
Australian here we got em too but they are rare.
There’s some around me in the US, but they click on while you’re in the middle of pumping gas with the most annoying voice and it’s loud as hell. I don’t go to those stations if I can help it.
Hopefully they stay rare.
never seen it in my home state but driving through some godforsaken Nebraska you see the worst things you can imagine
You can mute the ads by pressing one of the buttons on the side of the screen
Most have disabled that now. I have only found one pump around here that I can still mute. I used to put tape over the speakers to muffle it, but most play out of the screen like a phone now.
Yup, i havent been able to mute in a long time. Tried all the buttons, multiple buttons at once, etc. The worst ones are the ones blasting whatever that stupid “fuel pump show” is that talks about what’s going on in the pop world with “famous” people ive never even heard of, or stupid “life hacks” that arent…
Hi! I’m Maria Menudos! And did you know you’d be happier if you smiled more!! YAAAAAAAAA Hits screen with glass breaker …in Minecraft
Pumps at Westfalen stations in Germany promote their own payment app, and sometimes snacks in their stores. But no audio, and only adds in pics on the screens.
Yeah I’ve seen those types of ads, although only as a sticker or poster by the pump
Seems like companies these days would force ads into our dreams if they could
Here, US, I have seen ones that create fake “news” clips that are just pro-petro-industrial propaganda, not just ads. Like I saw one that claimed that solar energy actually releases more greenhouse gasses than “contemporary” petroleum fuels.
Saw one waxing poetically about how good fracking is.
My favorite ads I’ve seen are ones that play videos about basic traffic laws.
“When you’re out driving, remember, it’s illegal to pass on a double yellow line! It’s the law!”
One of my most upvoted comments in lemmy is me saying I should be allowed to smash those screens if they play ads.
Your function is to pump my fucking gas if you do anything more than that fuck off
Nobody is forcing you to use their pumps.
How about the entire society designed to be unlivable without a car ? Look, there’s a solution we’re not seeing here. Every fuel pump is also secretly a flame thrower. It can be used to put the nasty attention stealing machine in its rightful place, the middle of a fire.
There are only 2 gas stations in my town that don’t have these obnoxious ass pumps and both of them are on the other side of town where I’m most likely to get stabbed by a used heroin needle for my shoes.
So yeah I’d say I’m being damn near forced.
If everybody starts doing it (and trust me they will, it’s free money after all) we’ll be kinda forced to.
only if people don’t care enough to do anything about it.
Don’t see ads at the pumps if you stop using gasoline.
Right, you can just see them at the charging station now.
That’s not how charging stations work? 🤷♂️
Around me all the charging stations have giant 120” verticals screens constantly playing video ads at max brightness even in the middle of the night, and they’re always arranged in a way that you’re forced to see them even if you’re just passing by the chargers and not using them.
And you just know they are taking advantage of some subsidized energy prices because they’re “green”.
My guess is you’re seeing the L2 chargers outside a grocery store or some such. Those charge so slowly you aren’t expected to stick around and look at them, you plug in and do your grocery shopping. If you’re looking to charge a significant amount, these are not it.
I’ve never seen a Level 3 charger with an advertisement. Hell, 90% of the time I have to scour the parking lot to find the charger because they’re usually hidden and unlabeled.
Bonus points, if you’re fortunate enough to have access to a power outlet where you park, you can usually do 99% of your charging from home, ad free.
This is the way.
Well, that’s one point in Tesla’s favor then, their chargers have none of that nonsense.
Yea, good thing that entire team didn’t get fired because one loser was having a wittew bitty tantrum….oh wait.
Who’s to say what crap the toddler king will tack on in the future, but previously and for now, no ads.
It will soon.
Second button up on the right side is generally the mute button.
I just push the bittons around in a circle motion till I find it
I accidentally called the attendant for assistance like that once
Did you ask them to mute that shit?
How often am I correct?
80% of the time
Second buttom from the top right side at least mutes them
This used to work for my local Circle K’s and now does not. Not at a single pump I’ve tried in the last two years. I’m pretty sure it’s illegal.
It’s not always the same button. My Circle K doesn’t have those big screens thankfully.
they upgraded the ones near me, haven’t found out how to mute them yet.
Never been able to mute any at speedways. I have tried all the tricks that are posted.
Fork into the speaker works
Works for the old Shell ones.
The button that is worn out to the point of no longer working. After it quit working, I took to staring directly at the security camera while using my free hand to repeatedly punch the screen playing the commercial. I would rate the screen as disappointingly durable. I have an electric car now so I no longer have to tolerate it.
If QuikTrip ever starts using these you can find me in the local jail after doing some light property damage
Yours doesn’t? Every one around me does. There is a mute button, and it has always been labeled, so I just wack mute and look at something else.
Different cities, likely. Please tell me you don’t live in Wichita
Wichi-nah.
I thought it was news!
It is, in a idiocracy kind of way.
I just spam all the buttons, one of them usually mutes it
My bicycle doesn’t have any ads.
Yet
Need to print this as a sticker and put it on!
I give those shit places 1 star and never return.
What the fuck? These exist? I haven’t been cursed enough to see one.
If you drink enough of the gas you’ll eventually stop seeing the ads
